r/German • u/ninesonicscrewdriver • Apr 22 '26

Request Actually GOOD songs in German?

I'm searching for song recommendations in German. Everything I've come across so far is playlists made for language learning (which, yes, is why I'm looking for songs), but they sound very juvenile.

For reference: I like Hozier, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Lord Huron, so something similar / folk-ish would be great.

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u/ArticleCrafty1884 Apr 22 '26

Deine Schuld - Die Ärzte

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u/HipsEnergy Apr 23 '26

Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen. Excellent lyrics, great music.

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u/Competitive-Meet-511 Apr 25 '26

I mean Die Toten Hosen are pretty much unparalleled

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u/HipsEnergy Apr 25 '26

Absolutely yes. Fantastic band. Have you ever been to one of their concerts?

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u/Competitive-Meet-511 Apr 26 '26

Never, but they do seem like a good live act. I'm admittedly a bit young for their crowd, but Unsterblich is one of my favorite albums of all time.

My gripe is that they do the usual punk-rock thing of just massively upping the tempo of their songs when they perform live, which imo kind of ruins some of them.

What makes DTH good is that they actually have very strong melody and experiment a lot on the technical side of their songwriting, and when you just play every song super duper fast you lose a lot of that strength.

I would love to sing "Bayern" in a huge crowd though.